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-THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE-
Displayed within a museum setting, these iron swords are attributed to the Viking Age, dating roughly from the 9th to 11th century CE, a period defined by seafaring expansion, warfare, and trade across Northern Europe.
Likely recovered from burial sites or river deposits in Scandinavia, each blade reflects both martial function and symbolic status.
Forged from iron and occasionally reinforced with early steel techniques, the swords feature broad, double-edged blades and distinctive hilts, some adorned with bronze or brass inlays.
Inscriptions and simple cross-guards suggest ownership, craftsmanship marks, or ritual meaning. Time has roughened their surfaces, yet their forms remain unmistakably powerful.
Standing before these weapons evokes a solemn intensity: they once belonged to warriors whose lives were shaped by honor, violence, and belief.
These swords feel less like tools of war and more like enduring witnesses to an age where identity, survival, and legacy were forged in iron.
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Displayed within a museum setting, these iron swords are attributed to the Viking Age, dating roughly from the 9th to 11th century CE, a period defined by seafaring expansion, warfare, and trade across Northern Europe.
Likely recovered from burial sites or river deposits in Scandinavia, each blade reflects both martial function and symbolic status.
Forged from iron and occasionally reinforced with early steel techniques, the swords feature broad, double-edged blades and distinctive hilts, some adorned with bronze or brass inlays.
Inscriptions and simple cross-guards suggest ownership, craftsmanship marks, or ritual meaning. Time has roughened their surfaces, yet their forms remain unmistakably powerful.
Standing before these weapons evokes a solemn intensity: they once belonged to warriors whose lives were shaped by honor, violence, and belief.
These swords feel less like tools of war and more like enduring witnesses to an age where identity, survival, and legacy were forged in iron.
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L'Œuf électrique (transl. The Electric Egg) was a futuristic prototype concept electric cyclecar designed in 1938, and built in 1942 by industrial designer Paul Arzens (1903-1990).
It was acquired by the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris in 1993, and is currently at the Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse in Alsace.
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The song with the most famous drum fill in rock, “In The Air Tonight” by Phil Collins, debuted on the UK Singles Chart this week in 1981, at #36 (January 17)
One of the most famous uses of gated reverb on a hit single in rock history…
Gated reverb was brought to mainstream attention in 1979 by producer Steve Lillywhite and engineer Hugh Padgham while working on Peter Gabriel's self-titled third solo album.
Going on to produce “In The Air Tonight”, Hugh Padgham’s use of the technique helped propel Collins’ debut solo effort to the upper echelons of charts around the world.
Genesis possibly regret turning this song down when Phil Collins says he first took it to them, although some say that he never did.
It went all the way to #1 in Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Austria, #2 in the Netherlands, the UK, Canada and Ireland, #3 in Australia and Belgium, #4 in Norway, #6 in New Zealand, #7 in Spain, and #19 in the US.
In 2021 it was listed at #291 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Phil Collins was inspired to write the song by the raw emotions he felt after divorcing his first wife Andrea Bertorelli in 1980.
In a 2016 interview, Collins he said:
“I wrote the lyrics spontaneously. I'm not quite sure what the song is about, but there's a lot of anger, a lot of despair and a lot of frustration."
"I had a wife, two children, two dogs, and the next day I didn't have anything. So a lot of these songs [from his debut solo LP ‘Face Value’] were written because I was going through these emotional changes."
In an interview with Mix magazine, Collins explained that he wrote this song after returning from a tour:
“I got back to find that I had a lot of time on my hands because the family wasn't there, I rang up and said, 'Can I have my drum machine?' because I had to start writing some of this music that was inside me.
'In the Air Tonight' was just a drum machine pattern that I took off that CR78 drum machine.
The lyrics you hear for 'In the Air Tonight,' I just sang. I opened my mouth and they came out.
I never wrote anything down and then afterward, I listened to it and wrote them down."
Well the hurt doesn’t show, but the pain still grows,
It’s no stranger to you and me....
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"In order to keep faith with ourselves, we are obliged to respect in you what you do not respect in others."
It's the heavy, waiting silence in a room where everyone knows something is wrong, but to speak it would cost too much. I saw it in my grandfather's workshop when I was a boy. A government inspector came, pointing to a new, impossible rule about his business. My grandfather, a man of few words, listened, nodded, and saw the man out. He stood at his workbench for a long time, staring at his hands. He didn't rage. He just picked up his favorite chisel, the one with the worn wooden handle, and very deliberately, methodically, began to sharpen it. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. The sound filled the silent shop. It wasn't a protest. It wasn't a plan. It was a man, in the only way he knew how, reasserting his dignity. He was preparing his tool, and in doing so, reminding himself of who he was.
That specific, grounded act the refusal of the soul to be complicit in its own humiliation is the bedrock of Albert Camus's Resistance, Rebellion, and Death. This is not a single story, but a collection of essays, letters, and speeches that form a moral compass for living in a world gone mad. Written in the shadow of World War II, the Nazi occupation of France, and the grim politics of the Cold War, these pages are Camus's sharpened chisel. They are his answer to the deafening silences and the easy lies of his time.
Camus begins with a simple, radical premise: I rebel therefore we exist. Rebellion is not mere complaint or violence. It is the moment the slave says "no." This "no" draws a line. On one side is the condition that degrades him; on the other is a part of himself he demands be respected. In that act, he discovers a value he shares with all men: the demand for dignity. Thus, my rebellion, while born in solitude, immediately connects me to others. I rebel not just for myself, but in the name of a common humanity.
But Camus, the philosopher of limits, immediately warns us. The rebel must not become the executioner. The moment rebellion forgets its human origin and seeks absolute power or abstract ideologies (like Communism or Fascism), it betrays itself. It becomes a new tyranny. The true rebel fights for life, not for a distant utopia that justifies mountains of corpses. He fights with "clean hands." This is Camus's famous, difficult stance: he condemned the Nazi terror, but also rejected the Communist revolutionary terror as a mirror image of the same absolutist crime. For this, he was called naive by both the right and the left. He called it honesty.
The heart of the book, and its most searing section, is "Letters to a German Friend." Here, Camus speaks directly to an imagined friend on the other side of the war. He does not hate. He explains. "I believed in justice," he writes, "but I defended my mother before justice." This is the core of his humanism: there is no cause so abstract, no future so perfect, that it is worth sacrificing the concrete, present reality of human suffering, of a mother's love, of a sunny day. We fight not because we are sure of victory, but because we cannot live with ourselves if we don't.
Finally, in "Reflections on the Guillotine," Camus turns his rebel's eye on his own society, attacking the death penalty with cold, logical fury. He argues that the state, in committing premeditated, ceremonial murder, does not affirm life or justice it perpetuates the very cycle of violence and absolute judgment it claims to abhor. It is the ultimate negation of the rebellion's purpose, which is to say "yes" to life.
Reading this book today, the silence it breaks is different, but just as heavy. It speaks to anyone who feels the pressure to choose a side in a world of screaming certainties, who is sickened by political purity tests, who wonders how to act when both action and inaction seem tainted. Camus offers no easy program. He offers a posture: a stubborn, lucid, and compassionate "no" to everything that degrades human beings, whether it comes from an enemy, an ally, or our own governments. He calls for a rebellion that is, above all, moderate not in its passion, but in its refusal to commit the very evils it fights against.
My grandfather never read Camus. But in the steady scrape, scrape, scrape of his chisel, he was living the philosophy. He was not overthrowing a regime. He was maintaining his own humanity. He was drawing his line. Resistance, Rebellion, and Death is the tool-sharpening sound for the mind and soul. It is the book you read not to find out what to fight for, but to remember how to fight, and more importantly, how to remain human while you do. It is the unwavering voice that says, even in the darkest night, that some "no's" are the most beautiful "yes's" we can ever utter.
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Welcome to Boracay MV Luminara cruise ship, Operated by The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection.
It's a sunny Sunday here on the island.
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Viking Ship, built in the 9th century.
At Oslo Museum, Norway
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Who Introduce white karate gi?.🥋
The white karate gi was introduced by Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo — and later adopted by karate practitioners.
Before this, Okinawan karate was practiced in ordinary clothing.
Jigoro Kano created the white judogi in the late 1800s to symbolize:
Purity
Equality
Beginner’s mind
When karate moved from Okinawa to Japan in the early 1900s, masters like Gichin Funakoshi adopted Kano’s uniform system.
From there, the white gi became standard in karate worldwide.
So the direct answer:
Jigoro Kano introduced the white gi, and karate later adopted it through Funakoshi and other pioneers.
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On this day in 1981, the Ultravox single “Vienna” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #52 (January 17)
The pioneering synth-driven new wave hit from the LP of the same name remains Ultravox's signature song, and their most commercially successful release.
The lyrics were written quickly by Ultravox singer Midge Ure.
Billy Currie (keyboards) recalled to Mojo: "We were all being very arty, discussing the composer Max Reger, and Midge walked up and said in his Glaswegian accent, 'This means nothing to me,' and turned away.”
Producer Conny Plank suggested: “Well, sing that then.”
So he did!
According to the Ultravox Discography, drummer Warren Cann said:
“The song came together very quickly.
I had a drum machine/synth pad (CR-78 & 'Synare' pads) pattern in mind that I'd wanted to do something with and played that... to paraphrase myself, I said something like, "What about this, then?" and began the 'Vienna' rhythm.
We started playing something to it and then had the thought of using a chorus idea that we had laying around which we'd previously worked on but had no verse for.
It all clicked in a few hours and we ironed out the rough spots the next day. Except for finessing the middle 'solo' section of the song once we were in the studio, that was basically it.
A hit a day keeps the dole away!
We knew it was the musical high point of the album and made it the title track.
It was the song that best represented what we were trying to do.
We were determined that it would be our third single and fought with Chrysalis over it; naturally, they thought it was far too long at six minutes, too weird for a Top 30 chart hit, and too depressing and too slow.
Other than that, they liked it!”
The single went to #1 in Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands, #2 in the UK for four weeks, #7 in Sweden, #8 in South Africa and Austria, #11 in Australia, and #14 in Germany.
The song was named the greatest ever single to peak at #2 in the UK in a poll carried out by BBC Radio 2 and the Official Charts Company in late 2012.
“We are extremely pleased and very humbled to have been given this honorary #1, especially knowing the outstanding records which were also in the running - 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'Hound Dog' and 'Wonderwall' to name just a few," said Midge Ure.
The song that kept it off the #1 spot in the UK was "Shaddap You Face" by Joe Dolce!
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A lock that keeps receipts 🔒
This 1600s “detector” lock hid the keyhole, released the bolt with a hat tilt, and counted every unlock on a dial—perfect for guarding private rooms and secrets.
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Daily Stoic.
GM 🌄
Proof of walk this morning with Amigo and Cypher to Whitesand and Bulabog Beach ⛱️
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At the gym this morning for leg day.
"It's a good day to dive". 🤿
Pura Vida 🏝️
Panasonic RS-296US Carousel Deck (1972). An engineering marvel capable of playing 20 cassette tapes in sequence via its iconic rotary drum.
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Here's a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing.
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Pan Comforting Psyche,
1857-58
#sculpture #mythology #greekmythology
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